I created the AAA Leaders worksheet after reading about a class of architecture students who were struggling to find inspiration for their final design projects. Their professor, Andrew Levitt, tells them to plumb their subconsious for solutions. He encourages them to dig deeper and search for resonant ideas they have already seen.

I’m not an architecture student, but as I was reading Levitt’s book, Listening to Design, I started thinking about the people who inspired my leadership journey. It was easy to come up with a short list of names. It was more difficult to put my finger on the particular leadership qualities that resonated with me.

I began my reflection by sketching out three areas:

• Achievements - what have they accomplished?

• Aptitude - what abilities to they possess?

• Attitude - how do they think about their role?

But the real power of this worksheet is the final “Advice” section which asks: What would they say to you right now? Every time I get to that question, I’m surprised by my subconscious.

Give AAA Leaders a try. Maybe you’ll be inspired.

AAA Leaders Worksheet (1.1 MB)

Copyright, Use and Distribution

This worksheet is part of our Worksheet Wednesdays experiment. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You are free to copy and redistribute this worksheet. You can remix it or adapt it to your purposes, providing you share your revised version too. If you use this worksheet, please attribute Thirdway Think and link to thirdwaythink.com

Source of Inspiration

Levitt, A. (2018). Listening to Design. London, UK: Reaktion Books.